Month: February 2011
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Shakespeare portrait in New York
The “Cobbe” portrait of Shakespeare, named for the family estate where the painting was found, not for the artist (who remains unknown), stands on good evidence to be the only portrait of the Bard actually painted from life. The painting has crossed the Atlantic and is currently on display in New Amsterdam, er… I mean…
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Trove of Sorolla images
Similar to my opinion of John Singer Sargent, I think that the place of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida in the canon of great painters in art history is vastly understated. Sorolla has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the last 20 years or so. His popularity is continuing to rise, and resources for his images…
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The Practice & Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
In my post on resources for Learning to Draw back in October, one of the books I mentioned for those on a dedicated path was Harold Speed’s The Practice and Science of Drawing. Though illustrated, this book, like Speed’s well regarded book Oil Painting Techniques and Materials, is less “look and follow” instruction, and more…
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Wikipedia Color Resources
There are lots of color resources on the web, for artists, designers and others, but an often overlooked one is Wikipedia, the venerable user-edited online encyclopedia. Whatever you may say about the reliability of the information on Wikipedia (or from Britannica, or any other single resource, for that matter), I rarely consider a source like…
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Google Art Project
Wow. There are times I just want to hug the internet, and say “I love you Internet!“. Google, that monolithic giant of search, advertising, maps, stats and online software, whose offerings and initiatives have ranged from the amazing (search, maps) to the not-so wonderful (privacy issues), has spun off a new initiative for which I…